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    To do 23.09 or not? That's the question.

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      tman222
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      Upgraded two machines from 23.05.1 to 23.09 earlier this week - both finished the upgrade easily in under 5 minutes. No issues to report so far. Enabled the Kea DCHP server - looks to be working great. Logs for it seem a bit more chatty (verbose) though than the prior DHCP server. Also saw the new Intel Speed Shift settings on one of the machines and enabled / configured those as well - working fine so far. Thank you to the whole Netgate team for another great release!

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      • PhizixP
        Phizix
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        Sometime earlier this year or late last year I reloaded from scratch to use ZFS on my SG-5100. Updating to 23.05.1 went without a hitch.

        I may still wait. Anyone run their SG-5100 through the update?

        Also, I currently only run IPV4 on my internal network and use NAT. Any upgrade issues on that front?

        Phizix

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Phizix
          last edited by johnpoz

          Pulled trigger on update few minutes ago.. Looks like it took about a total of 16 minutes from time hit confirm on update to having internet again on my sg4860

          I have not checked out every package or services, etc. But pfsense has rebooted and up and showing 23.09 - and my vpn client connected, my HE tunnel shows connected and looks like all my services are running from the service widget page..

          Haven't checked yet if tailscale, my openvpn server, etc. is all running... But sure looks like a very successful update, which from my experience is the norm with pfsense..

          I didn't bother uninstalling any packages.. I made sure had image from tac for 23.09, I took backup configs, and connected via serial to watch the upgrade in realtime, etc..

          Big thumbs up from me.. I will report back after I have chance to make sure freerad, openvpn, tailscale, haproxy, etc are all up and running.. etc..

          edit: so freerad clearly working because my phone was able to auth to the wifi with eap-tls, it also was able to connect to openvpn server via cell connection and could ping device on my network. And haproxy is working.. Tailscale shows status of online in pfsense and connected from my phone on cell and able to ping device on my network.. So far sure looks a very successful and clean update..

          Checked my throughput to internet, and fine 500/50 without any issues. Which is my plan from my isp.

          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
          SG-4860 24.03 | Lab VMs 2.7.2, 24.03

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          • chudakC
            chudak
            last edited by chudak

            Finally came home and also upgraded to 23.09.
            Took me a little longer ~30 min as I had to do a hard reboot after ~20 min as the resolver did not seem to work well.
            But after that all seemed OK, checked WG, OpenVPN, and TaleScale.

            No obvious errors so far. CPU temperature looks a bit higher, but that may be related to the upgrade itself.

            I did remove Data Encryption Algorithms that were mentioned as incompatible in the release notes prior to upgrading.
            I have now left these:

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            • GertjanG
              Gertjan @chudak
              last edited by

              @chudak said in To do 23.09 or not? That's the question.:

              I have now left these:

              Remember to export (and import) new client opvn file(s).

              @chudak said in To do 23.09 or not? That's the question.:

              as the resolver did not seem to work well.

              Any details (from the logs) available why it didn't restart ?
              It was marked as stopped in the GUI , Restating from the GUI wasn't possible ?

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              • PhizixP
                Phizix
                last edited by Phizix

                Pulled the trigger after getting an image from TAC in case of an issue.

                Seems to have gone fine. Memory usage up quite a bit, but I will check after it finishes configuring.

                UPDATE: Memory usage is coming down but not yet down to 23.05.1 levels.

                Phizix

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                • AndyRHA
                  AndyRH
                  last edited by

                  Finally got around to it, my users are mean when the internet goes down...

                  No issues on my 7100, as others have said memory usage dropped, mine went from 18% of 8119 MB to 9% of 8120. Not sure how I DLed an extra MB.

                  CPU usage also dropped from 15% to 6%, but there could have been something going on...

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                  7100-1u

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                    coxhaus @AndyRH
                    last edited by coxhaus

                    @AndyRH
                    I upgraded to 23.09. My Cisco L3 switch is working fine. I plan on changing to the next CE version as I am running it at home.

                    I noticed my Power savings came up Speed shift for my Intel i3-6100T. It also had package level control set. How do I know whether I want package level control set or core level control set? Should I change it to core level control which is recommended?

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                      SteveITS Rebel Alliance @coxhaus
                      last edited by

                      DHCP issue that can affect some clients, or at least extra logging for others:
                      https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184104/dhcp-weirdness-after-23-09-upgrade/

                      Also there is a System Patches release for 23.09 now.

                      Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                      When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
                      Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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                        coxhaus @SteveITS
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                        @SteveITS
                        The nice thing about using a L3 switch is DHCP is in the switch not Pfsense so I have no issues with DHCP.

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